the final moments, the white house changes its story of what happened during the raid that killed osama bin laden, as the debate continues over whether to release pictures of his body. a bin laden bounce. president obama's approval rating jumped after the al qaeda leader is killed. the results of a new cbs news poll. and inside the s.e.a.l., a look behind the scenes at what it takes to become one of america's elite warriors. captioning funded by cbs >> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. we are learning more about the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden. the white house has revised its version of the assault and is debating whether to release photos of his body.

the pictures are described as gruesome. joel brown is in washington with more on this. good morning, joel. >> betty, good morning to you. we are getting a more complete picture of how the raid went down but it is that picture of osama bin laden's corpse that many around the world are still demanding to see. it may not be a matter of if photos of osama bin laden's body are released, but when. >> it could, in fact, be used to try to develop a lot of the revengeful nature of what al qaeda is all about. >> reporter: cia director leon panetta says he believes the images will eventually be made public, but the white house hasn't yet reached a final decision. >> reporter: it's fair to say it's a gruesome photograph? >> it could be inflammatory. >> reporter: the full story of the mission is still coming to light. tuesday officials revealed bin laden was not armed, as previously thought, and navy s.e.a.l.s killed him only after he resisted. the s.e.a.l.s confiscated a

treasure trove of computers, files and hard drives at bin laden's compound. the cia is now analyzing that material for any clues on potential terror plots. this is a look inside the million-dollar complex bin laden once called home. u.s. officials are vowing to get to the bottom of whether pakistan knew he was hiding out here. >> there are questions here that i think do need to be answered, hopefully by the pakistanis themselves. >> reporter: pakistan insists it had no idea of bin laden's whereabouts. yet the compound sits just a half a mile away from a sprawling military academy, in a town with more than 100,000 retired and active army officers. director panetta reportedly told lawmakers in yesterday's closed door briefings about the raid that pakistan was either involved or incompetent. betty? >> joel, while the white house debates releasing photos of bin laden's body or videos of his burial at sea there's

another piece we're unlikely to sea. tell us about that. >> there was also videos recorded from the helmet cameras of the navy s.e.a.l.s. the pentagon hasn't given any indication whether the videos will ever be released. it has been reluctant to do so in the past. >> joel brown joining us live in washington, thank you. former president george w. bush has declined an offer to join president obama at ground zero here in new york tomorrow. president bush climbed atop the rubble to address workers just days after the attack on the world trade center. a spokesman for the former president says he appreciates the offer to attend tomorrow's event but has chosen to stay out of the spotlight. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll released this morning, president obama gets high marks for his handling of the pursuit of bin laden. 85% of those asked approve of the president's actions, including solid majorities of democrats, republicans and independents, and the president's overall approval rating took a double-digit jump following the bin laden raid. the last time mr. obama got a

higher approval rating was back in july 2009, but those feelings do not extend to the president's handling of the economy. just 34% of those asked approve, the lowest of mr. obama's presidency. as we reported, there are growing questions about how bin laden could have been living just 35 miles from pakistan's capital and the pakistanis say they didn't know. in an interview with cbs news chief foreign correspondent lara logan, pakistan's former military ruler, pervez musharraf, insisted nobody knew. >> i do agree that it is surprising. it needs to be investigated, who slipped up, why this negligence. >> you are really asking people to believe that this all happened without the knowledge of the intelligence services and the military and that it came as a complete surprise? >> yes, yes, i'm saying that and i mean every word of it. >> you said there was no proof that he was in pakistan. >> yes, there was no proof obviously. those who were saying he was in

pakistan, i don't think they were talking with any evidence. >> it's believed that al qaeda's second in command, ayman al zawahiri, is also based in pakistan. the official white house line is the u.s. doesn't know if anybody in the pakistan government was aware that bin laden was living 35 miles from islamabad. but cia director leon panetta told cbs news anchor katie couric the pakistanis have a lot of questions to answer. >> this was a location that was very close to a military academy. it was close to other sensitive military sites. it had been there since almost five years ago. it was very unusual as a compound. i just think they need to respond to the questions about why they did not know that that kind of compound existed. >> the u.s. gives billions in foreign aid to pakistan. if it's proven the pakistanis knew about bin laden, some lawmakers want that number reduced. but the u.s. relationship with pakistan is tricky. pakistan is crucial to the u.s. war effort in afghanistan.

the u.s. invaded to hunt down bin laden and oust the taliban but with bin laden's death, the u.s. role there is being questioned. mark phillips has more on that. >> reporter: the head may have been cut off the snake, but somewhere in these afghan hills, u.s. intelligence estimates as few as 100 fighters now make up the remaining body of the al qaeda snake still active in afghanistan, and with about 130,000 troops, including 90,000 americans, chasing them and their taliban allies, the killing of osama bin laden in pakistan has reopened the debate on whether the strategy in this war is the right one. afghan president hamid karzai has had an "i told you so" moment, saying the killing proves what he's always said, that the fight is not here in afghan itself, but in al qaeda's safe haven, across the border.

>> the war on terror is not in afghan villages and afghan houses and that it has to be conducted where it's most effective. >> reporter: the major fight here now is not with al qaeda but with the resurgent taliban and it, too, is threatening reprisal. >> these kinds of things like killing osama bin laden, it's increasing more emotions of the people. it's not ending the problem. >> reporter: the problem is what it's always been, creating an afghan state that is strong enough to resist being controlled by its more fundamentalist elements. that's why american troops came here and why they'll likely be here for some time to come. mark phillips, cbs news, kabul. and there is news here at cbs. on june 6th, scott pelley of "60 minutes" will replace katie couric as anchor and managing editor of "the cbs evening news." just ahead on the "cbs morning news," heartbreak in the heartland after a levee is deliberately blown up. plus a deadly shoot-out caught on the dashcam of a

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flooding fears in the midwest this morning, but one town appears to be safe. the intentional breach of a levee in missouri may have saved cairo, illinois, but it damaged or destroyed as many as 100 homes and turned 130,000 acres of farmland into a virtual lake. >> just devastation. it breaks your heart. it is our home. it is our livelihood. this is just record-breaking. >> as flooding gets worse in louisiana, mississippi and tennessee, the army corps of engineers may decide to demolish more levees to ease the threat. damage from last week's deadly tornadoes in alabama could rival the $1 billion in losses the state suffered from hurricane katrina. thousands of buildings and homes were destroyed. the seven-state death toll now

stands at 328 with at least 236 in alabama alone. governor robert bentley says the recovery will be long and hard. >> as leaders of this state, we will see that alabama is rebuilt. it's a daunting task. but i have no doubt that we're up to it. >> the storms in the south set a new u.s. record of 312 tornadoes in a 24-hour period. a deadly shoot-out in wisconsin was caught on tape. >> get back in the -- [ gunfire ] >> this police dash cam video of a traffic stop on april 22nd, seth mccloskey steps out of that red truck there you see there and opens fire. he was killed in the shoot-out. he's a suspect in a drive-by shooting and might have been linked to as many as ten other random shootings. one officer was wounded. officials said they acted appropriately.

on the mch "cbs money watch" a new boost and a new entertainment option is tested out. ashley morrison is here. good morning. >> a mostly down day for asian markets. the hang seng dropped more than 1.5 and tokyo's nikkei was closed for a national holiday. wall street gets the latest on the labor market, on tuesday weaker than expected corporate profits pushed stocks lower. the dow was mostly flat while the nasdaq lost 22. numbers released overnight show a mixed picture for the retail sector, according to mastercard, clothing and luxury sales rose more than 10% last month compared to april of last year, but the normally steady sales of electronics took a hit, dipping 2% and online sales got another boost, climbing almost 20%. high gas prices are boosting the sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, both general motors and ford saw double-digit sales increases in april.

the compact chevy cruise accounted for better than 10% of gm's sales while ford saw a big jump in the sales of its focus compact. chrysler had its best april in three years. sales climbed 22%. industry wide sales rose 19% last month. toyota had the weakest number with sales edging up just 1%. american airlines is testing a new inflight entertainment option that lets passengers watch streaming videos of movies and tv shows on their own internet capable devices like laptops, tablet computers or smartphones. american says the price will be very similar to what people pay for pay-per-view movies at home. if tests go well and the if, aa signs off on it, the option could be in place later on this year. and if you're going to act up on a flight, don't it do it on hong kong airlineses. the carrier is teaching kung fu to its flight crew. it's a formed called wing chun and meant for close quarters combat. ideal for the confines of

airplane and should come in handy. the airline says it deals with about three drunk, disorderly or disruptive passengers every week. betty, they are running a tight ship there. >> wing chun, we all need to learn that. >> right, they don't mess around. >> at all. ashry morrison in new york thank you. straight ahead your wednesday morning weather. and in sports the season's first no-hitter. of help to score the season's first no-hitter. teacher he's impulsive in class. ls fros and his inattention makes focusing on homework tough. i know how it is because my son has adhd too. i didn't know all i could do to help manage his adhd. our doctor suggested a treatment plan with non-stimulant intuniv. [ male announcer ] once daily non-stimulant intuniv has been shown to reduce adhd symptoms. don't take if allergic to intuniv or are taking guanfacine.

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here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. new yo here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. chicago is sunny, 54 degrees there. dallas windy,. l.a. a sunny 90 degrees. time now for a check of the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows rain clouds covering the northeast and spreading toward the south. skies are clear from the west coast to the midwest. and another storm is on the move in the northern plains. later today there will be rain from the northeast to the southeast. it will be mostly sunny and windy in the west and southwest, and the northern plains will have a weak storm moving through the region. in sports, near perfection as the twins' francisco lariano throw this is season's first no-hitter. he struck out two against the white sox. he got great help from danny valencia in the seventh who gets the base hop and makes the

strong throw to preserve the no-hitter. minnesota beat chicago 1-0. in kansas city a great diving catch in the third by royals cabrera, takes a hit away from the royals andino. royals 6, orioles 5. in the nba playoffs miami has hut the celtics in a deep hole. dwyane wade puts a great fake on garnet to put the heat up by five. and the jam, and the heat trounce the celtics 102-91 for a 2-0 series lead. in oklahoma city, the thunder came out strong against the grizzlies and never let up. eric maynor made some long three-pointers to help oklahoma defeat memphis 111-102 to even their series at one game each. when we return, inside the s.e.a.l.s, a behind the scenes look at what it takes to join

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on the "cbs morning news" here's a look at today's weather, sunny in the west and rain on the east coast. light rain can be found in the northern plains and the southern plains are dry and sunny and in the southwest, temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s. the navy s.e.a.l.s that killed osama bin laden are reportedly back in the u.s. we will likely never know their names or see their faces, but this elite group of warriors have become america's newest heroes. lee furlisi from our houston affiliate khou described what it takes to join this band of brothers.

>> reporter: on this wind-swept day at the houston yacht club we met jack walston. a man to whom water is a second home. >> i'm a veteran navy s.e.a.l. >> reporter: it was back in '85 when walston joined the navy. a few years later, he signed up to endure what he called up to endure some of the toughest training on the planet, training to be a navy s.e.a.l. >> the class i was in started with 205 men and at the end of six months, 14 original men graduated. >> reporter: that training is geared to break the weak and mold the strong into our country's most elite teams of special forces. >> h evolution gets harder and harder up to the last minute. >> reporter: when the group of navy s.e.a.l.s called team 6 roped into osama bin laden's compound and killed him, walston had a unique appreciation for how they prepared. >> they spent countless hours training together and know each other like the back of the hand. >> reporter: the s.e.a.l.s were trained on a full scale replica of the compound in afghanistan. >> it's just like any type of professional sport.

you practice and you practice, and you practice, and practice, until everything is right, and that the job goes down as if nobody had ever said a word. >> reporter: we may never know the names of the men who took out america's most wanted terrorist but there's a band of brothers who appreciate how it played out. >> s.e.a.l. teams were in there, and did exactly what they were supposed to do, flawless. >> reporter: they brought to an end the ten-year hunt for osama bin laden. lee furlisi, khou, 11 news. in florida they could have used a navy s.e.a.l. after a wild alligator had a confrontation with a police car. the seven-foot-long gator chomped on the front bumper of a sheriff's deputy's cruiser. homeowners in gainesville called for help with the dangerous anim animal. the deputy was eventually able to dislodge the gator's jaws by simply backing up. the bumper was badly damaged. there were no injuries, well,

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president obama made a very tough call to green light the attack that killed osama bin laden because the intelligence information about the mission was incomplete. it was a decision that was a huge gamble. david martin reports. >> reporter: after months of studying satellite photos of the compound, cia analysts concluded there was only a 60% to 80% chance bin laden was really there. in the photos, a man could be seen coming out of the main building and walking around the courtyard as if for exercise, but it was impossible to tell whether he matched bin laden's height. photo interpreters analyzed the pattern of daily life and determined the family in the main building had the same number of members as bin laden's family. none of them ever left the fortress-like compound.

four helicopters, two black hawks and two chinooks took off from jalalabad in afghanistan, 160 miles from the compound. the black hawks carried 25 s.e.a.l.s. the chinook had a backup force. and extra fuel for midair refueling. the s.e.a.l.s planned to fast rope onto the roof of the main building right over bin laden's head while the second helo dropped its s.e.a.l.s on to the courtyard. the second helo lost lift and had to land, clipping its tail rotor on the wall, forcing the first to change and land on the ground. they now had to blast their way through walls, losing precious minutes, and the element of surprise. 25 minutes went by. panetta heard nothing from mccraven and the president heard nothing from panetta. what was supposed to be a 30 to 35-minute operation was pushing 40. the s.e.a.l.s were shooting their way up the stairs to bin laden's bedroom.

finally mccraven reported "gentlemronimo "geronimo, ekia." geronimo, code for bin laden, ekia, enemy killed in action. now the s.e.a.l.s had to get out before the pakistanis scrambled jets to shoot down the unknown intruders. only one black hawk could fly so mccraven sent in a chinook to help pick up the s.e.a.l.s hauling bin laden's body and a treasure trove of captured computers, cds and paper files. the helos headed straight for an aircraft carrier where bin laden was to be buried at sea. only there did the tension in the situation room begin to break. when a s.e.a.l. burst into that third floor bedroom, bin laden's wife rushed at him, so he shot her in the leg. that left him standing right in front of bin laden. bin laden was unarmed, but the s.e.a.l. thought he was a threat, and shot him twice. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. coming up a little bit later on "the early show," new

york mayor michael bloomberg on president obama's trip to ground zero tomorrow. plus how social media networks can help transplant patients find the organs they desperately need. and alic hannigan talks about her hit show "how i met your mother" and her charity. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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